Scleria triglomerata Michaux (Q3395)

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Scleria triglomerata is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Scleria
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Scleria triglomerata Michaux
Scleria triglomerata is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Scleria

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    taxon/id/Scleria triglomerata Michaux
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    Scleria triglomerata Michaux
    Scleria triglomerata
    Michaux
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    sclérie à trois glomérules (French)
    whip nutrush (English)
    tall nutrush (English)
    whipgrass (English)
    1 reference
    Newmaster, S.G. & S. Ragupathy. 2005. Flora Ontario - Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS), Phase I. University of Guelph, Canada. http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis/
    dark woods
    moist pinelands
    meadows
    swales
    prairies
    savannas
    rhizomes clustered, stout, nodulose, hard.
    Culms usually in tufts, stout, 40–100 cm, glabrous, somewhat scabrous distally.
    Leaves: sheaths purplish, not winged, pilose or glabrous;
    contraligules ovate, rarely trigonous;
    blades linear, ribbed, shorter than culms, 3–9 mm wide, rigid, margins and midrib scabrous, sometimes slightly pubescent.
    fascicles 3, 15–40 × 5–15 mm, each with (1–) 3–10 (–12) spikelets (smaller numbers in shade-forms);
    lateral peduncles erect, often becoming filiform and pendulous in deep shade-forms;
    bracts subtending inflorescence leaflike, lanceolate, 3–11 cm, long-acuminate-attenuate, ciliate or glabrous.
    Spikelets bisexual and staminate (sometimes reduced to few flowers in bisexual spikelets), brown, 3–9 mm;
    staminate scales ovate-mucronate to lanceolate-acuminate, pistillate scales ovate, midrib excurrent, often awnlike.
    Achenes sometimes grayish brown, sometimes with dark longitudinal bands, ovoid to subglobose, 2–3 mm, smooth, shining, apex obtuse;
    hypogynium low, obscurely 3-angled, covered with whitish or brownish, siliceous, papillose-spiculose crust.